Self Care to Success in 15 Minutes or Less Podcast

In today’s fast-paced world, we often feel pressure to constantly be productive and “on the go.”  However, taking time to pause and reflect is crucial for our mental and emotional well-being. 

Our last episode for season 2 was in July of 2021.  We thought we would relaunch by September of 2021.   Together, Ancy and Dr. Cindy, will discuss the benefits of taking a pause, including increased creativity, improved focus, and reduced stress.  We’ll also explore some practical ways to incorporate pausing into your daily routine.  We’ll also address some of the common barriers to pausing, such as feeling guilty or feeling like you’re falling behind. We’ll offer a journal prompt for addressing the obstacles to pausing,  so that you can give yourself permission to pause without feeling guilty or anxious. 

Whether you’re a busy professional, a parent juggling multiple responsibilities, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands, this episode will provide you with the tools and inspiration to give yourself permission to pause and prioritize your well-being.  

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There are so many benefits to engaging in mindfulness practices.  Mindfulness helps improve your physical health, enhance relationships, improve work performance and it helps increase your emotional wellbeing.  There is a lot of research that supports how much mindfulness can enhance your overall life. And of course there have been cultural traditions and communities that have engaged in these practices for thousands of years. Mindfulness practices are for everyone! In this episode, Cindy introduces you to mindfulness  and guides you through a few exercises to support your journey of getting back to you. Please make sure you are in a stable, quiet place while listening. 

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Do you want better answers? Well then ask better questions! If you listened to Season 1 of Velocity Visions Inc.’s podcast you learned the importance and influence of your self-talk.  You learned how to watch the language and commentary that runs through your head and how to steer it in a better direction. What people often ignore are the questions that they ask themselves in the midst of this running self-talk.  If you are human, you have likely asked yourself unhelpful questions that make you feel worse when you receive the answer.  Our brains are powerful. When we ask ourselves questions, our brains work hard on finding the answers.  Phrasing the questions we ask ourselves in a more mindful way,  will help us generate thoughts and ideas that will be more in line with what we want.  So here’s a question, wouldn’t receiving more helpful answers that could unlock more powerful parts of you be worth 15 minutes of your time? Yes? Then please listen. 

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Is there something weighing heavy on your heart or in your life that gets in the way of you moving forward in particular areas of your life? Letting it go is a self care practice that can support your overall well being and open up room for new possibilities and opportunities.  It is not easy to let go of something that has become something we are used to, whether it is a way of being or a friendship or relationship.  In this episode, Cindy challenges you to examine what you might need to let go of in your life and reassign its role so that you can position yourself to get the best that life has to offer to you.  

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Self-care takes practice and it often doesn’t come easily to most.  However, the investment of self-care has reaped some great benefits for those that commit to it.  It is even more challenging to practice self-care when you are a recipient of biased words, actions, or experiences.  These are probably some of the toughest conditions to engage in self-care, but some of the most necessary to preserve well-being.  In this episode, Ancy identifies some of the sneaky covert ways bias can affect your emotional state and how to maintain self-care in those moments. Healing from experiences of bias, can help you not only be resilient, but can give you the strength to help others. Now that is a win/win!

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Friendships are essential to the fabric of who we are as human beings. Sometimes we are so busy that we do not take the time to connect with our most valuable relationships and friendships. When you don’t water a plant, it dies. Friendships and personal relationships also need nurturing to create sustaining intimacy and meaningful connections.  In this episode, Cindy offers tips on how to sustain and nourish those relationships that are important to us. There are some friends that can’t wait to hear from you! 

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Are you saying “no” to opportunities that could be right for you? Are you avoiding saying “yes” to your betterment even though an inner voice is telling you to say “yes”? Sometimes we easily say “yes” to others but say “no” to ourselves. Saying “yes” might very well be what you need to move to that next level in your life. In this episode, Ancy candidly shares where saying “yes”when she wanted to say “no” proved to have some pleasant outcomes. She also offers some journal prompts to help you realize what is getting in the way of your saying “YES” to you.  Listen to this podcast, try the journal prompts, and give yourself the “YES!” you deserve.

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Intuition. We don’t learn about it in elementary school, high school, nor in college. Intuition can be described as that inner knowing; that inner voice that nudges us to make a decision or to take an action. Many times we allow our external environment to get in the way of paying attention to our intuition. Cindy discusses a few tips on how to listen to that inner voice that can literally shift your life’s trajectory in ways that are rewarding and can help you make good choices. 

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Whether we like it or not, other people rub off on us.  We are influenced by their energy, their words, and their actions. Have you ever been around someone who makes you smile or feel good just by being in their company? Or, do you dread being around certain people because you know that they will make you feel worse ?  These are examples of how other people influence our mood.  What makes things even more challenging is when the company of certain people influences what actions we take that can affect our self-care or our progress and achievements. How do we maintain healthy relationships that support us without getting rid of family and friends that may not feed us the best energy? In this podcast, Ancy explains the impact on your well-being from the time spent with people in your life. She explains how forming a healthy balance in your relationships can bring out the best in you. Now that’s time well spent!

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Losing a loved one is difficult no matter who it is and no matter how it happens.  Depending on what culture or social group you are a part of, there are social norms that are expected. What happens when you are in a pandemic that gets in the way of certain practices? How do you engage when you are hurting? How do you handle it when how you want to respond is in direct conflict with how society thinks you should grieve? Recently, Cindy lost her mother to COVID-19.  Cindy shares how she is using self-care techniques during her time of grief, without compromising all of who she is and while accessing her power through it all.  How do you access love, joy and fun when you are actively grieving? 

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